Friday, February 21, 2014

Drops in a Bucket

As I write this column on a cold mid-January late February morning, North Americans are finding out that the phrase ‘cold snap’ is terribly outdated and that we should be using ‘polar vortex’ instead...

Wait, that sounds familiar. Oh yeah, now I remember. That was something I wrote back in mid-January. The irony is that we, or at least Minnesota and Wisconsin, are about to have another polar vortex thrown at us here in late February after 10 inches of heavy white snow fell overnight. This winter has seriously worn out its welcome.

And that stuff I wrote back in mid-January? It was published online yesterday for the Nature Chemistry Blogroll and is called "Drops in a Bucket". If you want to know the connection between the polar vortex and a drop in a bucket, then be sure to check it out (for free).

2 comments:

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